After four nights of waking up, coughing away for at least an hour at a time, and a day of constant crying, Arianna is back to her old self.  She still has a runny nose and we stayed home from church today, but she's chipper and chatty and happy.

I felt so bad for her yesterday.  My sister and sister-in-law came over to scrapbook all day and so Daddy had to deal with her.  She hardly had any breakfast and was just miserable.  He took her out to get some groceries, but they only made it through one store before she was just so unhappy that he had to come home.  Then apparently (we were out shopping) she refused to eat and just cried.  He put her to bed and she ended up sleeping for almost four hours!  When she got up she had a fever and was extremely unhappy.  We gave her Tylenol and it took her a while, but she settled down.   She ate her lunch (much later than normal) and her dinner and slept very well last night.

Thank goodness her first bout with sickness is over.  I couldn't believe how helpless I felt.  I just wanted to take it all away.  Yesterday afternoon she was so warm and her eyes were so watery.  She was only happy if I cuddled her and sang songs.  She kept signing more when I got close to the end of a verse.  Then when I got her ready for bed I gave her some more medicine and she just wailed.  I felt so awful that I caused her to cry even more.  It almost made me cry.  Will dealing with her being sick get any easier?